The idea was that the Earth and the sky were mirror paintings, so the events in the sky were equivalent to the ground. This is why an eclipse of the Sun or Moon indicated that a great terrestrial figure, somehow, would be assumed: for example, a king will die. “It is possible that this principle originated from the coincidence of an eclipse and the death of a king – that is, the real experience in Mesopotamian history,” Dr. George said. “But it is also possible that theory was completely developed by the analogy. We can’t know ,
Babylonies saw parts everywhere, which are responsible for many references for birds flight and behavior for many references in pills, patterns made from oil leaving oil, smoke rising from incense burners and snakes, pigs, cats and Encounter with a scorpion. There are 61 predictions on newly-disconnected bullets that differ from the warning about natural disasters (“” will be flooded and will reduce the amount of barley on the threshing floor “) unnatural chaos (” lions will go on a stun and go out And will go out. “The most poignant predictions from a city describe frustration in the time of famine:” People will trade their babies for silver. “
While performing proper rituals, Babylonies believed, may stop, or at least reduce, a strict omen and change the future. If a omen was specially threatening, a priest would conduct a supernatural examination by sacrificing a lamb and reading his entry. The main internal organs investigated were liver, lungs and colonic spirals. “Originally, Divineer was looking for anything unusual,” Dr. George said, “Deformation, absence of features, double of features, division and doubling grooves in surfaces.”
Typically, the characteristics visible on the right were considered positive and negative, although the right and left in each region of Babylonia were different. The priest will then tally the results, which may require another sacrifice, when unclear.
Of course, all speculation at the state level in Babylonia became a tool to regulate the king’s behavior and people close to the ruler used political power on it. “There is a doubt that some kings were more superstitious, and thus were susceptible to the divine compared to others,” Dr. George said. “Since there were lunar eclipses, by his nature, the sick ports for the king, the Omains associated with him talked to his deep concerns about what the havoc could happen to him and his people.”
